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Hanover (dpa / lni) - Lower Saxony pig farmers can again export more to countries outside the EU.
As the Federal Ministry of Agriculture announced on Friday, there will be more trading opportunities in the future after the far-reaching export bans due to African swine fever.
"This is good news for all pig farms in Lower Saxony," said Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Barbara Otte-Kinast (CDU) on Friday with a view to the decision that exporting pork to Vietnam is now possible again.
The regionalization concept is the right way - pork can be exported from areas without African swine fever.
According to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Singapore has also agreed to such a regionalization.
With Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and South Korea, exceptions to the complete ban on processed products have been achieved.
Negotiations are to be continued with China.
After swine fever emerged in autumn, numerous states outside the European Union stopped pork imports from all over Germany - although the animal disease had only been discovered in wild boars in Brandenburg and Saxony.
Pigs in farmers' stalls have not yet been affected.
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